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Homi J. Bhabha

1909 - 1966

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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone to the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. He was the first chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Homi J. Bhabha is the 432nd most popular physicist (down from 376th in 2019), the 316th most popular biography from India (down from 227th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 432 out of 851. Before him are Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernst Chladni, Raoul Pictet, and Alan Guth. After him are Boris Podolsky, Walther Ritz, William Stanley Jr., Walther Meissner, Evgeny Lifshitz, and Vilhelm Bjerknes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 114. Before him are Héctor José Cámpora, Seichō Matsumoto, Wolfgang Reitherman, Pavle Đurišić, Juan José Nogués, and Patricia Hayes. After him are Franz Six, August Derleth, Bernd Rosemeyer, Gottfried von Cramm, David Frankfurter, and Indro Montanelli. Among people deceased in 1966, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 81. Before him are Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Wilhelm Röpke, Emil Brunner, Väinö Tanner, Bud Powell, and Robert Rossen. After him are Boris Podolsky, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Wieland Wagner, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Georges Theunis, and Albert W. Hull.

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In India

Among people born in India, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 316 out of 1,861. Before him are Shantanu (null), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Karamchand Gandhi (1822), Gupta (240), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), and Phoolan Devi (1963). After him are Bahadur Shah I (1643), Zakir Naik (1965), Thiruvalluvar (350), Bhāskara I (600), Savitri (1936), and Sundar Pichai (1972).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 6. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), and Tom Kibble (1932). After him are Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), and Daulat Singh Kothari (1906).

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